Bishop Talbert to appear on 'Larry King Live'
3/11/2003 News media contact: Kathy Gilbert · (615) 742-5470 · Nashville, Tenn. By United Methodist News Service United
Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert will be part of a panel discussing
divisions within the religious community over the possibility of war
with Iraq on CNN's "Larry King Live," airing at 9 p.m. Eastern time
today.
Talbert, ecumenical officer of the denomination's Council
of Bishops, was part of a delegation of religious leaders led by the
National Council of Churches that visited Iraq Dec. 29-Jan. 3. Since
then, he said he has committed himself to working to avert a war.
Talbert has appeared in a 30-second commercial for cable television and
has been interviewed by numerous news outlets.
Other members of
the panel are Bob Jones, president of Bob Jones University, Greenville,
S.C.; Max Lucado, pastor of Oak Hills Church of Christ in San Antonio;
Father Michael Manning, a Roman Catholic broadcaster who hosts "Word in
the World"; and John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun
Valley, Calif.
The retired bishop was part of an ecumenical
group from the United States and Great Britain that met recently with
British Prime Minister Tony Blair to express concerns about the
possibility of war. Talbert also traveled with other religious leaders
to Baghdad just before the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Talbert has
extensive experience with the National and World councils of churches.
He is a former president of the National Council of Churches and is on
its executive board.
Only the General Conference, the top
assembly of the United Methodist Church, speaks for the entire
denomination. It meets every four years and will convene in 2004. For an
overview of its statements on war, see
http://umns.umc.org/backgrounders/war.html.
For more information on
the Iraq situation, go to http://infoserv.umc.org/faq/iraq.htm,
http://umc.org/headlines/iraq/ or
http://umc.org/headlines/military_outreach/default.htm.
For special UMNS news coverage, see "Conflict with Iraq" at http://umns.umc.org/conflict.html online.
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